Disclaimer; This fanfiction uses existing ideas, characters and or worlds, but is an independent work of art. I own nothing, hence the reason for publishing my writings here instead of in real books where I could make some money.
Ukyo was very excited.
Aunty Nodoka had let her inside, and was serving her tea!
This was already going so much better than she had feared. For some reason, she had gotten this insane idea in her head that Ranma might actually have some other suitors after him, but seeing how calm things were, that couldn't be tru-
"Oh my, we have guests!"
Looking at the doorway, Ukyo found Tendo Kasumi, carrying another tray of tea and curry bread.
Following behind her was a woman with three fingers on each hand, thick and tapered into claws, and sporting a face so innocent, it made Kasumi look seductive … the expression on this woman, who Ukyo now saw had wings on her back, was of disappointment, and the bundle on her arm made some noise.
"Hello!" the woman greeted with a cheerful tone. "I'm Charlotte, who are you?"
"Kunji Ukyo," Ukyo introduced herself with a bow. "Are you of the Phoenix people Ranma told us about?"
"No, I'm his girlfriend!" Charlotte giggled, having gotten past the confusion Ranma had caused her during their first meeting.
Ukyo stared at the winged woman in shock … her jaw nearly touching her chest.
"Oh my," Kasumi said. "I had better get this tray out to the dojo, I should have delivered it by now … please excuse me."
"You're his girlfriend?" Ukyo finally demanded, a little loudly, because the bundle on Charlotte's arm started screaming in protest at the sound.
Nodoka was immediately on her feet and cooing over the bundle with Charlotte to calm it down.
"There's a good girl," Nodoka finally cooed as Charlotte handed the bundle to her, sad that she wasn't able to do more herself … she would need more training. "Have you made a messy?" she continued in a silly voice before sticking her face into the bundle. "Yes you have! Come on, Granny Nodoka will change your messy diaper for you! And then it's time to go to bed!"
"Grandmother!"
Ukyo's second scream made the baby wail again, and Charlotte's sad expression turned to brief annoyance at the cause of the renewed screams.
"Shh!" she hushed at Ukyo. "Rei doesn't like loud noises!"
"But-"
"Shh!"
"Quack!" Mousse protested, trying to break out the side of the pet carrier by pecking at the metal bars.
"Who's making all that noise?" asked a new female voice. "I thought Rei was sensitive to them …"
Entering through the door to the garden, was a huge woman with blonde hair, strapping muscles, and clothes that were clearly not meant for someone her size. Across her shoulders was a towel, and in her hand was a half eaten piece of curry bread.
"Miss Ukyo here," Charlotte accused, tears in her eyes. "Her and her pet duck won't stay quiet and are upsetting Rei!"
"Who are you?" Ukyo demanded again, lowering her voice and aiming her shocked stare at the huge woman.
"Sheila," the woman introduced herself. "I'm Ranma's girlfriend."
"WHAT?"
In Atlanta, Georgia, Ranma was finishing his shopping at a small shop that was open all day … it was early in the morning and most shops wouldn't open for another three or four hours, but he was dutiful enough to go anyway … they had just gotten back from India, and Gina remembered that she was out of deodorant … as he paid by means of credit card for the feminine deodorant, Ranma tried not to be affected by the curious looks the guy behind the counter was giving him. Of course, to make the ordeal a little less embarrassing, Ranma has thrown in some things to his shopping that he really didn't need, such as shades, beef jerky, a gaming magazine for invention ideas, a few cans of fizzy soft drinks, condoms, popcorn, and paper clips.
Of course, condoms were useful, but it appeared his girlfriends had thought ahead during their shopping trip, and gotten some … or rather a lot or condoms. But that was understandable, as there were seven women to be sated, so they went through the large stash of condoms rapidly.
Ah, the joys of being a highly trained Martial Artist … extreme stamina and knowledge of the body …
His errand complete, Ranma slinked into a dark alley, ignoring the homeless person lying in a heap of cardboard, half-empty bottle of gin in his hand, and teleported to Gina's lab, where she was likely to be.
"NOBODY TRIES TO ICE MY SISTER!"
This was the first thing Ranma heard as he arrived.
Looking to the source, he saw Britanny holding Gina by her sweater, though it was a different outfit than she had been wearing when he saw her not half an hour earlier … the blue, sleeveless shirt tied into a knot under her breasts had been replaced by a brown t-shirt, and her skimpy, blue denim shorts had been replaced with longer, white shorts that reached down halfway to the knees. She was also cleaner, and didn't have that "jungle" smell that indicated she had just returned from another adventure.
"What's going on here?" he asked loudly, interrupting the bubbling conflict.
Everyone in the room paused.
Ranma looked from Gina and Britanny to Stryyp, to Hanza, to Genn, to Seance, to Dao, to Penny, to Gina-
Wait a minute … there were two of Gina?
"Britanny, why are you about to throttle your sister?" he asked sternly. "Did she somehow manage to clone herself?"
"No," Genn said, looking irate. "The one Britanny is holding is Madrid in disguise … she tried to kill Gina in the Carbonite Freezing Chamber so she could get to the Ultimate Djinni powers in Yl'Dahjim."
"Have you all gone completely insane?" asked Ranma rhetorically. After a brief pause, he pointed to the Gina held by Britanny. "You've got the two of them mixed up. That's the real Gina."
"How can you be so sure?" asked Stryyp. "All evidence points to the opposite being true ... this one is wearing what Gina wore to her adventure, according to Penny … she smells like she's been in the jungle, and we found this Gina in the Carbonite Freezing Chamber, where Madrid was going to freeze her solid, using Genn's Rakshasa Memory-Echo to copy Gina's mind," he indicated the rather dishevelled Gina who was leaning on Hanza.
"And then there's this," added the dishevelled Gina, and spoke aloud. "Computer, access the security camera datafile … replay camera number six on Main Viewer …"
A big screen sprung to life on the wall, showing the clean Gina forcing the dishevelled Gina into the carbonite freezing chamber, proclaiming how she had chosen that moment carefully, because Gina's sisters were either Eating Stryyp's breakfast or in Japan, and Ranma was gone. And that no one would hear Gina scream or die, and that all the secrets of Yl'Dahjim would be hers.
The mood immediately changed in the room, and not for the better.
"What do you have to say now, Ranma?" asked the dishevelled Gina with a quivering voice, as though she was holding back tears at the traumatising memories the video brought back.
"Physical evidence can be tampered with or forged, spiritual evidence can not. Did you check the settings on the freezing thing?" Ranma asked casually. "I doubt Madrid would do anything to risk her own life … besides, don't you think I have ways of recognising those I love, no matter what form they hold?"
Dao, wanting this issue to be settled, strode over to the control panel of the Carbonite Freezing Chamber.
"There is indeed something suspicious about these controls," Dao hummed after a moment. "It won't let me enter a temperature lower than thirty-seven degrees, not nearly enough to possibly freeze Gina in carbonite!"
Her disguise penetrated, Madrid jumped back from Hanza, and whistled sharply.
Bursting through the door of the Hurtbot Locker, were three hurtbots … or to be more precise, the modified ones Gina worked on to incorporate Beta-Technology into.
"Gina, did you ever finish with the modifications on those hurtbots?" Ranma asked carefully.
"Almost," Gina whimpered. "Dao finished them when we were in Japan. Hurtbot Prototype Alpha-Seven! Hurtbots 33 and 34! Stand down immediately! User I.D.: Gina Diggers! Password: Beefcake!"
The three hurtbots paused in their approach. " Access denied, " the three declared in unison before continuing.
" Madrid, you b#&!" Gina screamed, nerves replaced by anger. "You stole my robots! Now it's personal!"
"Well, since I couldn't deceive you, I had to stall you, somehow," Madrid reasoned with a smirk. "Hurtbots 34 and 33, keep these people busy while Prototype Alpha-Seven comes with me … we have another Realm to unlock!"
Hanza made a move to stop the Djinni in disguise, but the feminine hurtbot stopped her with a powerful roundhouse kick.
As the former man crashed into the wall, the two hurtbots pulled out their weapons and aimed at the assembled people.
"Gina … I think you'll have to reassemble those robots soon," Ranma remarked as Stryyp and Seance began to attack and defend against the two robots.
As he was about to join the battle against the robots, Ranma stopped and plucked two shuriken from the air where they were headed for Britanny with as much ease as he had stopped the silver blade the human ninja had attempted to use on him when he had gotten back from Jade for the first time.
The shuriken reeked of magic, and Ranma didn't think he would be able to destroy them there and then … so he sent them at the two robots, who had by that time activated what looked like cut-up rings around their arms … hovering half a foot from the arms, and being flat and black, Ranma recognised them as the Phantom-Rings Gina had described to him, adding several tons of force to any punch, yet weighing close to nothing to the person wearing them.
The shuriken harmlessly bounced off those rings and embedded themselves in the walls.
"You two take care of the wererats!" Ranma yelled at Stryyp and Séance, pointing at the shadows along the top of the super computers. "I'll take the robots!"
Not about to make the mistake of going easy on these things, Ranma immediately shifted to feline form, and lunged at the robots, claws extended, ears flattened and sharp teeth bared in a fierce yowl.
The two robots moved as one, spreading out to present less of an opportunity to a large threat and aimed their weapons at the incoming Ranma.
Meanwhile, in the lab of one Lord "Peewee" Talon, said pre-teen scientist was facing the one opponent he couldn't have his henchmen take care of … his mother!
"I just got an e-mail from an old pen pal of mine," she declared. "She just became a grandmother, and has invited me to visit. You will come with me, of course … it'll get you away from the bad influence of your friends."
At this she cast a glance at Peewee's minions, who were almost cowering under her stare. The only one not cowering was the giant Amazon that held her bald husband as though he was a plush toy. Having the employer of her husband away, meant that she could spend more quality time with her spouse.
"We'll be leaving tomorrow, so get a good night's rest, because it'll be a long flight."
Without further instruction, Peewee was left with his minions, and not in a good mood.
Rounding on his employees, the boy glared.
"Why didn't any of you try to stop her from entering?" he snarled. "I have many experiments to conduct! I don't have time to come with my mother to see an old friend! What am I paying you for?"
"You're hardly paying us at all," Daishi saw fit to point out. "And even the best ninja in the world would know better than to stand in the way of a determined mother … especially one as scary as your mother …"
"That's right," the Amazon purred and applied some more loving, to a giant, pressure on her husband. "We Amazons know to respect our elders or Matriarchs …"
"Help … me …" Ionis squeaked from within the embrace. One would normally have thought that having an Amazon for a wife would have been any man's dream, given the reputation some have given them about being on the verge of being nymphomaniacs … the problem for Ionis was that the rumours were close to the truth … and he had the privilege of having a giant Amazon for a wife! Oh, his poor hips!
Back in Tokyo, Ukyo was getting frustrated.
From what she had gathered from the conversations she had sat through, Ranma had, not one, not two, but three girlfriends, one of which had just given birth to his baby!
This couldn't possibly get any worse!
"Hey, Sheila, do you know when the others will get back?" asked a new voice from across the garden. A female voice. Sticking out the sliding door to the dojo, was a pale brunette woman, with large front teeth.
"Do you mean everyone, or the ones at work?" called the huge woman.
"Everyone!"
"I don't know when Ranma or Gina will be back," Sheila replied. "But Brianna, Beebee and Nabiki should be home soon!"
"Good! Because we're almost done in here!"
"That's great!"
The brunette returned to the inside of the dojo, and Sheila sat back down, having felt the need to get up and have the person she addressed in her line of sight.
"Who was that? And who were the other girls she mentioned?" asked Ukyo.
"Oh my, that was Lydia," Kasumi informed the Okonomiyaki chef. "She is also one of Ranma's girlfriends, and so are Brianna, Gina and Beebee … we've all agreed to share him."
-Thud!-
"Oh my," exclaimed Kasumi. "She must have been very tired to fall asleep like that … she even looks surprised …"
A spray of bullets washed towards Ranma, and disappeared as a flare of energy surrounded him, vaporising the metal before they could hit their intended target.
Then Ranma disappeared from sight out of pure speed so fast, even Britanny had trouble seeing anything.
Without warning, Ranma reappeared behind the two hurtbots and slashed at them with his claws, not even coming close to hitting.
Britanny was about to yell at Ranma for missing, when cuts appeared on the two robots, and widened until half the armour on them had been shredded to pieces, leaving them more as skeletons than robots.
The hurtbots had no idea how they had suddenly been stripped of parts, but found it inconsequential, as there was a battle in progress, and it held priority over solving mysteries.
Stryyp and Seance were having an interesting job of getting the two ninja.
While their magic and artefacts could easily have destroyed the two wererats, their species being evident by the tails sticking out from their behinds, the fact that they had been locked up in a holding cell until a short while ago indicated that they may not be entirely voluntary in their attacks, so they tried their best to incapacitate them.
This was not an easy task, as they refused to stay still for more than a second at a time.
However, after a lot of failed attempts, the two wererats were teleported to the very cell they had been broken out of.
-Klank!-Tink!-Crash!-
"Ranma!" called Gina, oddly enough very calm, things considered. "You're helping me putting them back together when this is over!"
Mewling in annoyed resignation, Ranma gave the scattered remains of the two hurtbots another glance before slinking over to his only present girlfriend.
"You look so cute like that!" Gina exclaimed as she picked him up, hugging him like Akane did P-Chan. "But now we have to get Madrid! Who knows what she could do if she got the ultimate Djinni Power!"
Author's Notes; As some of you may have noticed, I may start getting sloppy with the time zones … it's not much, but it is getting noticeable. I had to make some changes to the plot from the Gold Digger comic to match the time in Japan compared with when Ranma and Gina were in India.
I also apologise for the shortness of the chapter … it was originally supposed to be a part of the previous chapter, but writing it and proofreading it with this added on would have taken more time than I had.
Credits; The idea of having PeeWee's mother being Nodoka's pen pal was given by TerraBull, though it is only hinted at in this chapter.
